Chapter 847

At 4:30 p.m. on October 6, the New York stock market closed.

On the first day of listing, igrit's share price peaked at US $56.75 and ended at US $53.125 because many investors failed to resist selling. Even so, igrit's share price rose as high as 51.7% on the first day of listing, with a closing market value of $229.8 billion.

From the IPO valuation of US $150 billion to the closing of US $229.8 billion on the first day, in just one day, the market value of this high-profile new technology giant has increased by nearly US $80 billion, surpassing Cisco, which originally ranked first in the market value of North American stock market.

At the close of the day, Cisco's market value was $223.7 billion.

On October 6, the whole technology stock market was on the rise.

At the beginning of this year, the NASDAQ index, which broke through 2000 points, hit a new high on October 6, reaching a high of 2618 points with a single day's 3.5% increase. As a result, the total market value of Listed Companies in the whole Nasdaq market reached $3.1 trillion.

Before the listing, many media valued igritt's equity at $100 billion when they counted Simon's personal assets, and some people criticized it as too overvalued.

Now, igritte is officially listed. After the IPO, Simon's shareholding in igritte in the name of westero company has dropped sharply to 59.2%. According to the closing market value of 229.8 billion US dollars on the first day, the total value of his 2.561 billion shares has also reached 136.1 billion US dollars.

Let's look at the big three Internet companies controlled by igritte.

Cisco's closing market value on October 6 was $223.7 billion, with Westeros holding 46.3% of its shares worth $103.5 billion.

AOL's closing market value on October 6 was $179.1 billion, with westero holding 65.5% of its shares worth $117.3 billion.

The three giants alone have contributed $356.9 billion to Simon.

If we take into account danielis entertainment group, which had a market value of $176.1 billion when it suspended trading on September 29, westero's 81.9% stake in danielis entertainment, which contributed $144.3 billion to Simon's wealth. Including the big three, the total is $501.2 billion.

Four companies have brought Simon more than $500 billion.

There is no doubt that Simon's personal wealth in the new year's Forbes 400 rich list, which will be released at the end of this month, will increase again compared with the $620 billion estimated by fortune a few months ago.

Ordinary people are more and more numb to this number, but many institutions have begun to study the impact of westero system on the global economy more carefully.

We need to know that even if we calculate in 1995, which is not over yet, there will not be more than 10 countries in the world whose GDP has reached 600 billion US dollars. The social wealth that the whole westero system can control and even influence has surpassed most of the world's economies.

In the face of the stock price miracle on the first day of igritte's listing, now no one will doubt that the information industry is the future of the world.

Simon westero, almost in control of the future.

At least the future of America.

October 6 is followed by the weekend.

This time, there was no special hot spot to divert the attention of the media and the public. What everyone saw this weekend was the news about the listing of igrit.

In addition to the IPO once again from the stock book to determine Simon's one hundred billion dollar level of personal wealth, igritte four also become the focus of media attention.

According to the closing price of US $53.125 on the first day, the personal wealth of Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, the founding three giants of igritte, who obtained 151 million shares, reached US $8 billion. The personal wealth of a former westero housekeeper who obtained 76 million shares from Amazon online mall also reached US $4 billion.

In the past few years, in addition to Simon's top ranking on the Forbes 400 list of the rich in the United States, one of the highlights of the list is the spectacle of the Walton family.

This time, Simon is still on top of the world. However, Tim Berners Lee, who has gained $8 billion in personal wealth through the listing of igritte company, is sure to be in the top 10. There is no doubt that Alice Ferguson's $4 billion will be in the top 20.

Amy Pascal, CEO of danielis entertainment, who won a large number of equity awards in the IPO process last year, has been listed on the stock market for a year. Recently, the estimated personal wealth of the media has reached about $3.5 billion, which can also easily squeeze into the top 20.

In addition, there is a family of leibulde who has been hiding behind westrow.

Simon didn't treat James Leibold and his wife who worked hard to take care of the Westeros company, let alone Jennifer.

Just like this IPO of igritte, relying on Mr. and Mrs. leibulde's positions as consultants in igritte in recent years, Simon gave the couple a total of 8 million igritte shares through rewards and subscription, which may be far less than the big four, but the price of 12 million shares, calculated according to the closing stock price on the first day, also exceeds US $420 million.In recent years, in addition to the stock subscription and awards of the important subsidiaries of Westeros, such as danielis, Cisco and AOL, the rebolds also made many investments under Simon's suggestion. Among them, they only bought 1% of Microsoft's shares at the beginning. According to the market value of Microsoft's closing price of $134.6 billion on October 6, the current value is more than $1.3 billion.

All in all, the total assets of the James Leibold couple have actually reached the level of $3 billion.

In the past few years, because of deliberately keeping a low profile, the family name of leibulde has always been at the bottom of the wealth list, because the amount of shares generally does not need to be declared. Last year, Forbes magazine's appraisal of the assets of the leibulde family was only US $500 million, far lower than the actual value.

Steve Forbes, the head of Forbes group, also talked about it with Simon at the reception at noon on the day of igritte's listing. He thought James was definitely a missing fish in the Forbes list. However, James still has no intention of disclosing the family's wealth, and intends to continue to hide it, and Forbes does not intend to expose it.

In any case, on this year's "Forbes" list of the 400 richest people in the United States, not only the richest people at the top of the list will have a large number of new rich people from the Westeros system, but also a group of senior executives from the Westeros system.

You know, according to the closing price on October 6, among the senior executives of igritte, not counting Tim Berners Lee and other big four, 26 of them are directly worth more than 100 million, seven more than the 19 originally defined by the $30 issue price. This year's "Forbes" US 400 rich list entry threshold is about $350 million, and the number of qualified igritte executives has reached 11.

In addition to the group spawned by the listing of igritte, there will also be many core companies on the list, such as danielis entertainment, AOL, Cisco, cersei capital and other listed companies, as well as tincobail, instagram and other non listed companies.

According to the preliminary statistics, the core of the westrow system will take no less than 35 places in the list of 400 rich people and the threshold of 350 million US dollars. Although many people are ranked lower, they are also 400 of the 260 million people in the United States, which is the top of the real pyramid.

And, globally, there will only be more.

The most typical is the Johnston family in Australia. Relying on Simon's unremitting support, the Johnston family, whose total assets are no less than 10 billion US dollars, has now entered the ranks of the world's top plutocrats.

It is a law that almost any enterprise, group or even country can not escape from the boom and decline.

The westero system is not very prosperous, but Simon has been thinking about it intentionally or unintentionally, and taking corresponding measures to delay this law.

Igritte's IPO is undoubtedly very successful.

The issue totaled 714 million shares, including the additional 100 million shares expected to be issued by the green shoe mechanism triggered by the first day of listing. The total amount of funds raised will reach $28.6 billion. Excluding 183 million shares cashed out by a group of shareholders, which is equivalent to $6.4 billion, the remaining $22.2 billion will be put into the account of igrit company for enterprise development.

Although igritte's current annual revenue has exceeded US $10 billion, and suddenly more than US $20 billion in cash, it is still inevitable that a group of senior managers tend to be extravagant.

October 7.

On the second day of listing, Simon called all igritte executives in New York to hold an interim meeting to discuss how igritte might change its operation attitude because of this successful IPO.

Simon pointed out the theme at the beginning of the meeting.

's $22 billion 200 million fund will be all the long cash reserves of igret to defend against the risks posed by changes in the industrial situation in the future. It is said that this money will serve as a special fund for I Gerrit to continue to expand business after the dotcom bubble burst.

Any bull market has an end.

Simon believes that the US technology stock market can still last for a long time, but there is no doubt that the new technology bubble is bound to be punctured in the future, leading to a prolonged downturn in the market. At that time, if we can have a large amount of funds, in addition to maintaining the stable operation of our own enterprises, igrit can also take the opportunity to make bottom-up and further realize its expansion in the field of Internet industry.

If we want to achieve this, we should not only spend the 22.2 billion US dollars this time, but also reserve as much as possible.

Therefore, in the next few years, while the market situation is still good, igrit will continue to issue a number of long-term corporate bonds to raise funds, so as to reserve more funds. As for enterprise development, the revenue volume of igrit at the present stage is enough to be self-sufficient, and it must also be self-sufficient.

All in all, after IPO, the expansion of igrit will not strengthen, but will slow down gradually.

At the same time, we started to cut down.

At least prepare for downsizing.

Then, we will dig deep into the three core businesses of search engine, social network and e-commerce, and make these three most potential businesses of Internet industry deeply rooted in Simon's memory. At that time, even if all other businesses abandon or decline, igrit will inevitably become a super giant with a market value of 10 billion.Midtown Manhattan.

In a conference room at the headquarters of westero company in Rockefeller Center, after discussing the tight days after the IPO, Simon finally said to Tim Berners Lee: "one more thing, you and many other company executives have a lot of wealth after the IPO, but I don't want to see you slack off from now on.

If you think you can start to enjoy life now, no problem, please quit first, and then you can enjoy what you have. You deserve it. However, if you are not willing to continue to work hard, and do not want to give up your present position, I am sorry, once found, I can only ask you to leave.

This is what I'm telling you. Tim, Jeff, Carly and Ellie, I don't need to hear your promises. I'll just see what you do. Remember to pass on my words to everyone else in the company after returning to Los Angeles. Remember, I'm very, very serious. I don't mean to be joking.

Finally, are there any other questions? "

All of a sudden, the big four, who were knocked face to face by Simon, were slightly awe inspiring and shook their heads.

"In that case, let's break up. We won't be entertained at noon. Well, ally, you stay."

Tim Berners Lee got up and left the office, leaving only Alice Ferguson, who happened to be sitting next to Simon during the meeting.

Simon waited for a moment. When he saw that the door of the conference room was closed, he turned to the side. Alice said, "in today's meeting, the person I want to talk about most is you, Ellie. Do you know why?"

The housekeeper also turned slightly and nodded gently.

Among the big four, Tim Berners Lee is a technical talent, not involved in the management of too many enterprises. Jeff Bezos is a very strict and conservative manager. He is sure to be able to better implement Simon's requirements for igritte to live a tight life. Carol Bartz is in charge of igritte's software and service business. At present, he may have contributed a lot of revenue to igritte, but he is not the core of igritte that Simon likes.

Only housekeeper, in the past few years, has expanded Amazon's online mall in a radical style.

From radical to introverted, it is not easy in many cases.

Simon looked at the housekeeper's delicate, cool and perfect face, thought about it for a moment, and asked, "Ellie, can you draw?"

The housekeeper shook her head. "No way."

Simon didn't mind either, and continued: "in fact, learning to draw is the same as running Amazon now. No matter what kind of painting style you start from, as long as you accumulate enough knowledge on one hand and then learn other painting skills, it's easy to get by the analogy. By the way, computer programming language is the same, which you must be familiar with. "

Alice nodded. "I understand, boss. I'll take your plan seriously."

Simon was surprised: "really?"

"Well."

Simon thought that he had to persuade the housekeeper well. Seeing that the housekeeper was so simple, he had some doubts and joked: "why did he change his persistence so easily?"

Alice's beautiful blue eyes blinked twice: "because your suggestion is right. What's more, Amazon's early steps of spending money to cultivate the market have been completed. Even if it still needs to do so, it can now give it to other hot money pouring into the field of e-commerce, who will be the main force of subsidies in the next few years. From next year, what I will do is to continuously optimize the warehousing and logistics system, maximize efficiency and reduce costs, so that Amazon online mall can form a sustainable business model. However, boss, Amazon will continue to lose money for a long time in the future, because I will continue to expand Amazon's sales network to an appropriate extent. Therefore, this kind of loss is inevitable, and it is not a technical loss of igrit for expansion and tax avoidance as a whole. "

Simon listened carefully, and suddenly felt that cold beauty seemed to be fooling herself seriously.

The girl may be able to moderate, no longer like this year's crazy burning $1 billion.

But it doesn't seem to change much in my heart.

I can't change my nature.

The leather chair on his toes came closer to Alice. Simon reached for the housekeeper's delicate chin and appreciated it again. He said, "who did you learn from? How is it a little bit, eh, black belly?"

The word "abdominal black" was not translated into English for a long time, so it was directly used in Chinese.

Then there was the housekeeper's slightly confused expression.

Simon didn't explain. He went over and gave the girl a kiss on her lips. It was cool and felt good. So he came closer and planned to persuade a stubborn girl who didn't want to repent in a more primitive way.